{"id":14214,"date":"2025-09-18T09:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/?p=14214"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:25:28","slug":"bernard-garcia-executive-director-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/es\/bernard-garcia-executive-director-in-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Garcia in Ecuador: Casablanca&#8217;s involvement in protecting women and children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-build-content\"><i>Press Release \u2013 Paris \u2013 18 September 2025<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\"><i>(Fran\u00e7ais ci-dessous<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\"><i>Espa\u00f1ol abajo)<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\">A bill proposed in Ecuador by the Ombudsman provides for the regulation of medically assisted reproduction, in which surrogacy is permitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\"><b>Bernard Garcia,<\/b> a Franco-Chilean doctor of law and executive director of the Casablanca Declaration, <b>was invited by the NGO Dignidad y Derecho to speak to the Ecuadorian Parliament to explain the dangers of surrogacy<\/b>. He drew in particular on the <b>report recently published by Reem Alsalem<\/b>, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, which states that <b>all forms of surrogacy are contrary to international law and calls for its universal abolition<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\">Bernard Garcia also met with <b>several of the country&#8217;s leaders, including a former President of the Republic<\/b>, and was sought out by several media outlets. He also spoke to students at the country&#8217;s main universities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\">The experts in Casablanca expressed their concern about the situation of exploited women in Latin America and called on the authorities in countries in this region to ban surrogacy on their territory and to join the international coalition working for the universal abolition of surrogacy.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14216\" src=\"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernard-garcia-ecuadorian-parliament-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernard-garcia-ecuadorian-parliament-2.jpg 957w, https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernard-garcia-ecuadorian-parliament-2-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernard-garcia-ecuadorian-parliament-2-768x441.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\"><b>Participation de Casablanca \u00e0 la protection des femmes et enfants en \u00c9quateur \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\"><i>Communiqu\u00e9 de presse \u2013 Paris \u2013 18 septembre 2025<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\">Un projet de loi propos\u00e9 en \u00c9quateur par le D\u00e9fenseur du peuple pr\u00e9voit la r\u00e9gulation de la procr\u00e9ation m\u00e9dicalement assist\u00e9e dans lequel la gestation pour autrui est autoris\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\"><b>Bernard Garcia,<\/b> docteur en droit franco-chilien et directeur ex\u00e9cutif de la D\u00e9claration de Casablanca,<b> a \u00e9t\u00e9 invit\u00e9 par l&#8217;ONG Dignidad y Derecho \u00e0 prendre la parole au Parlement d&#8217;\u00c9quateur pour expliquer les dangers de la gpa.<\/b> Il s\u2019est appuy\u00e9 notamment sur le <b>rapport r\u00e9cemment publi\u00e9 par Reem Alsalem, Rapporteuse sp\u00e9ciale de l&#8217;ONU sur la violences faites aux femmes, dans lequel il est affirm\u00e9 que toute forme de gpa est contraire au droit international et est fait un appel \u00e0 son abolition universelle.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\">Bernard Garcia a pu \u00e9galement rencontrer <b>plusieurs leaders du pays, dont un ancien Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique<\/b>, et a \u00e9t\u00e9 sollicit\u00e9 par plusieurs m\u00e9dias. Il a pu \u00e9galement intervenir devant des \u00e9tudiants dans les principales universit\u00e9s du pays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\">Les experts de Casablanca expriment leur pr\u00e9occupation au sujet de la situation des femmes exploit\u00e9es en Am\u00e9rique Latine et demandent aux autorit\u00e9s des pays de cette r\u00e9gion du monde de prohiber la gpa sur leur territoire et de rejoindre la coalition international qui \u0153uvre pour l&#8217;abolition universelle de la gpa .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DO9uX08DRNC\/?igsh=MTIyZmJndGw4MjNseQ%3D%3D\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14321\" src=\"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernard-garcia-bernard-garcia-at-the-university.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernard-garcia-bernard-garcia-at-the-university.jpg 996w, https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernard-garcia-bernard-garcia-at-the-university-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernard-garcia-bernard-garcia-at-the-university-768x681.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\"><b>Participaci\u00f3n de Casablanca en la protecci\u00f3n de las mujeres y los ni\u00f1os en Ecuador<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\"><i>Comunicado de prensa \u2013 Par\u00eds \u2013 18 de septiembre de 2025<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\">Un proyecto de ley presentado en Ecuador por el Defensor del Pueblo prev\u00e9 la regulaci\u00f3n de la reproducci\u00f3n asistida, en la que se autoriza la gestaci\u00f3n subrogada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\"><b>Bernard Garcia<\/b>, doctor en Derecho franco-chileno y director ejecutivo de la Declaraci\u00f3n de Casablanca, fue invitado por la ONG Dignidad y Derecho <b>a intervenir en el Parlamento de Ecuador para explicar los peligros de la gestaci\u00f3n subrogada<\/b>. Se bas\u00f3, en particular, en el <b>informe publicado recientemente por Reem Alsalem, relatora especial de la ONU sobre la violencia contra la mujer<\/b>, en el que se afirma que <b>toda forma de gestaci\u00f3n subrogada es contraria al derecho internacional y se hace un llamamiento a su abolici\u00f3n universal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\">Bernard Garc\u00eda tambi\u00e9n <b>se reuni\u00f3 con varios l\u00edderes del pa\u00eds, entre ellos un expresidente de la Rep\u00fablica<\/b>, y fue solicitado por varios medios de comunicaci\u00f3n. Asimismo, pudo intervenir ante estudiantes de las principales universidades del pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\">Los expertos de Casablanca expresan su preocupaci\u00f3n por la situaci\u00f3n de las mujeres explotadas en Am\u00e9rica Latina y piden a las autoridades de los pa\u00edses de esta regi\u00f3n del mundo que proh\u00edban la gestaci\u00f3n subrogada en su territorio y se unan a la coalici\u00f3n internacional que trabaja por la abolici\u00f3n universal de la gestaci\u00f3n subrogada.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14222\" src=\"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernard-garcia-and-osvaldo-hurtado-former-president-of-ecuador.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernard-garcia-and-osvaldo-hurtado-former-president-of-ecuador.jpg 740w, https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernard-garcia-and-osvaldo-hurtado-former-president-of-ecuador-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bernard Garcia and Osvaldo Hurtado former President of Ecuador<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release \u2013 Paris \u2013 18 September 2025 (Fran\u00e7ais ci-dessous Espa\u00f1ol abajo) A bill proposed in Ecuador by the Ombudsman provides for the regulation of medically assisted reproduction, in which surrogacy is permitted. Bernard Garcia, a Franco-Chilean doctor of law and executive director of the Casablanca Declaration, was invited by the NGO Dignidad y Derecho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}